By Bashir Sultani

#Art

"For years, creatives have been told the same thing: put everything online, post constantly, build a brand, grow an audience.

And then we centralized all of culture onto, like… three websites.

Three massive platforms where artists uploaded their personalities, faces, voices, writing, humor, emotional lives, and intellectual property. Not because we were naïve, but because opting out meant professional invisibility.

And now all of that material has been mass-scraped, automated, repackaged, and fed into systems designed to imitate the very people who were told they had to participate in order to survive.

I think that’s the real tragedy for artists: there was no meaningful way to refuse."

By Tova, taken from "#AI Stole My Face And Made Me A Digital Flesh Puppet" https://cheftova.substack.com/p/ai-stole-my-face-and-made-me-a-digital

Lest we forget: Obama secured the Iran deal without starting a war, shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, or losing a single American life.

But please, tell me more about how “toughness” requires body bags.

Thank you so much to #RedTeamTools for sponsoring me for the upcoming conference I'm teaching at.

@deviantollam was kind enough to send me enough 2-piece kits to cover expected participants, and apparently there's another delivery on the way with some door straps and other goodies 🥰

BTW, you can get your own starter kits here: https://www.redteamtools.com/learn-about-lockpicking-kit/ (I also highly recommend Dev's book)

#Locksport #Lockpicking #Tools

For everyone saying "immigrate to Europe! You'll be safe here" I want to cram this chart in their face...

Every one of your fucking countries is 1-2 elections from being fascist yourselves. And no end in sight. Sure, Trump's America is bad. But being an immigrant in any fascist nation is really bad too.

God I'm sick of all the "it couldn't happen here"isms

https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116619685343542805